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Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene

by Irus Braverman

6 minutes

Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation....

Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque

by Lisa FitzGerald

5 minutes

Early modern interaction with water, be it through coastal flooding, stranded sea-life, or trial by ordeal, was one of the totemic means of decoding a...

Dike 14, Cleveland, Ohio: Containing Pollution in the Age of Ecology

by David Stradling

6 minutes

Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create ...

German Beer and the Making of a New China

by Shen Hou

6 minutes

The first commercial filmed in China was a 1947 effort to sell Tsingtao Beer, one of the world’s most famous brands. “Tsingtao” is an older spelling o...

The Reinheitsgebot: Between German Consumer Culture and the European Market

by Robert Terrell

7 minutes

On 15 July, 1987, West German federal president Richard von Weizsäcker received a letter from one Andreas Z., which began: “Much has been written abou...

Once Upon a Game Reserve: Sambisa and the Tragedy of a Forested Landscape

by Azeez Olaniyan

5 minutes

The Sambisa Forest, located in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, has become synonymous with Boko Haram terrorism. Boko Haram has waged a bloody war ag...

Uses of Environmental History: Lise Sedrez

by Lise Sedrez

4 minutes

São Paulo, the largest city in South America, is going through a historical drought. So is California, in the USA. That is how newspapers refer to the...

Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park

by Andrea Gaynor

15 minutes

From the top of Mount Trio, the Stirling Range National Park appears covered in khaki velvet, a little threadbare in parts, but soft in the folds. Str...

Uses of Environmental History: Don Worster

by Donald Worster

5 minutes

If I did not believe that environmental history is already useful and practical, more so than other fields of historical research, then I would have a...

Uses of Environmental History: John R. McNeill

by J. R. McNeill

8 minutes

 “As Useful as We Want to Be” Environmental or ecological historians do not “need to become more useful and practical” in anything. They sho...

Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma

by Rita Brara

6 minutes

Animal rights activists in India have been at the forefront of a legal campaign against jallikattu—a form of bullfighting in the province of Tami...

The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Pachamama Has Rights

by María Valeria Berros

5 minutes

Nature has recently been recognized as a subject rather than an object of rights in some Latin American countries. This is the case in Bolivia, on a l...

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